Portland Oregon USA-1957: Peacock Roaming Freely Through Grassy Yard

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationPortland, Oregon, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Portland Oregon

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Peacock Roaming Freely Through Grassy Yard — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Portland, Oregon, 1957, showing a peacock roaming freely through a grassy yard. The bird's iridescent blue neck and long, patterned tail feathers are visible as it walks across the lawn. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural light, capturing a candid moment of wildlife in a suburban setting. The footage is framed by the dark borders of a projector screen, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122656184

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Portland-area home-movie clip useful for documentary or museum requests needing brief color footage of a peacock in a residential-style grassy yard.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century home-movie viewing conditions, with soft 8mm color, projector-frame borders, lawn, stonework, and small yard structures visible.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged observer quality, following a roaming peacock as it moves through grass and near garden features without people entering the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a peacock, long tail feathers, green lawn, dry grass stems, stone edging, small yard structures, bright daylight, and dark projector borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, gate edges, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, domestic garden insert, period memory beat, or transitional detail in a 1950s family-film sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a peacock kept or encountered in a suburban outdoor setting, without supporting claims about ownership, location within Portland, or event context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright, location/property status, and any animal-use context should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1950s 8mm peacock footage, Portland Oregon home movie bird, vintage yard wildlife, and color family-film garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Portland or Oregon home movies, then broader 1950s animal, garden, and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Portland-area 8mm frame showing a peacock crossing a grassy yard, with dark projector borders around the scan. — A peacock moves through the lawn, its blue neck and long tail visible in profile.

The peacock continues across the Portland yard in soft 8mm color, framed by dark vertical projector borders. — The bird walks to the right through grass, with its patterned tail low behind it.

A rear view of the peacock in a grassy Portland yard, with stone edging and small structures in the background. — The peacock faces away near low stonework and miniature-looking yard structures.

Close, soft 8mm view of the peacock's tail and body near grass, stonework, and a pale yard structure in Portland. — The camera catches the bird close to the lens, emphasizing dark tail feathers and nearby garden stonework.

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